The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine made a diplomatic demarche and expressed a resolute protest to the Russian side over the uncoordinated with Ukraine visit on August 13-14, 2014, of Russia’s President V.Putin and other Russian officials to a temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine – the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
Such a step, taken contrary to Ukraine’s official warnings, has become yet another fact of Russia’s negligence to respect Ukraine’s national sovereignty, UN Statute, UN GA resolution on “Territorial integrity of Ukraine”, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly resolutions, bilateral and multilateral obligations.
Ukraine considers this visit and other uncoordinated “visits” of Russian officials to theAutonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol as a failed effort to legitimize illegal “government authorities” on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine and in fact to approve actions that have already led to economic and social problems, human rights violations, persecution of journalists, Ukrainian-speaking people and indigenous Crimean-Tatar population of the autonomy, violations of property rights of legal and private entities of Ukraine.